New Suntrap Apartments (May, 1938)
“Slums”
New Suntrap Apartments
Homes where everyone will get his share of sunlight, with roads and gardens elevated well above street level, are shown in model form at the Modern Architectural Research Group Exhibition at the New Burlington Galleries, London, England. The occupants of these apartments will get their full measure of daylight regardless of the position of the sun in the skies.
Structures such as these are to be erected in “slum” areas.
Also known as the projects.
I’m still trying to figure out “Sunlight and London” being together.
The buildings in the middle look like they’re about to crumble with the stilts…
It reminds me of a prop in a Monty Python eposide.
Harry, I was just thinking it was the building in Monty Python that was held together with positive thinking.
Whas this ever actually built?
I appears to either be an obscure Le Corbusier Project or a rip off of one.
And in just a couple of years time ground clearance began with the help of the Luftwaffe.